Sympathy
WordNet
noun
(1) An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
"His sympathies were always with the underdog"
"I knew I could count on his understanding"
(2) Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
(3) A relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other
"The two of them were in close sympathy"
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Etymology
From from from from + .
Noun
- A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
- The ability to share the feelings of another; empathy.
- A mutual relationship between people such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
- A mutual relationship between organs such that a condition of one part causes an effect in the other.
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- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)